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CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hide-and-seek, hopscotch, capture the flag… these are just a few games
today’s adults probably enjoyed during their childhood. Today’s kids,
however, are more likely to spend their free time in front of the TV and
playing virtual games, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.*

To help address the decline of active play in communities across the
U.S., Dr Pepper Snapple Group (DPS) launched Let’s
Play to provide the tools, spaces and inspiration to make play a
daily priority. Tomorrow, #LetsPlayChicago will bring a citywide
celebration of play to the Windy City.

To kick off #LetsPlayChicago, DPS along with Let’s Play’s partner
organizations KaBOOM!
and Good
Sports, will build a playground at O.A. Thorp Scholastic Academy and
deliver more than $68,000 in new sports equipment to community
organizations across Chicago. The event will continue into the afternoon
with a fun-filled, free outdoor festival for the Chicago community with
a wide range of games and activities for kids of all ages.

“Through our Let’s Play initiative, we are committed to promoting
healthy lifestyles built on balance – balancing calories consumed with
calories burned,” said Joe Rowland, Sr. VP-Central Business Unit General
Manager for Dr Pepper Snapple in Northlake, Ill. “As an employer of more
than 1,000 Chicago-area residents with thousands of retail customers
serving millions of local consumers, we have a stake in the future of
this community. That’s why we are committed to working with our partners
at KaBOOM! and Good Sports through Let’s Play to provide opportunities
for active play for kids and families in Chicago.”

Get Out and Play

It is more important than ever for kids and families to get outside and
play, and according to research from the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, healthy lifestyle habits formed through play can
lower the risk of obesity and its associated health issues.** Other
research shows play helps kids grow physically, emotionally and socially.

Let’s Play and partners KaBOOM! and Good Sports are dedicated to
promoting active play. To date, DPS has committed $26 million over six
years to benefit more than 7.5 million children by supporting programs
that create inspirational playspaces and provide the resources and
equipment needed for children to get the balanced and active play they
need to thrive.

Come One, Come All and #LetsPlayChicago!

The play-packed day will take place at O.A. Thorp Scholastic Academy,
6024 W. Warwick Ave., Chicago, IL 60634 on Saturday, August 9.

WHEN:

7:30 a.m. CT – 12:30 p.m. CT

Through Let’s Play, DPS, its partners KaBOOM! and Good Sports, and a
team of 300+ volunteers will bring play to Chicago. Here’s how:

Build a playground from the ground up

Sort and deliver more than $68,000 in sports equipment to community
organizations across Chicago, including America SCORES Chicago, Beyond
The Ball, B.I.G. Baseball Academy, Gads Hill Center, Higgins Community
Academy, M.A.D.E. Organization, METROsquash and TEAM Englewood
Community Academy

Hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the newly erected
playground and sports equipment donation with local DPS
representatives, school principal and community leaders

12:30 p.m. CT – 4 p.m. CT

In the afternoon, the #LetsPlayChicago event will feature free games,
prizes and fun for kids of all ages including:

Autographs and pictures with former Chicago Bears player Alex Brown

Bouncy houses

Obstacle courses

Face painting

Free snacks

Not in the Windy City to celebrate play with us?

Check out the Let’s Play website, LetsPlay.com,
which serves up inspiration to families looking for ways to incorporate
active play into daily routines, including the Let’s Play Pledge.

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About Let’s Play

Let’s Play is a community partnership led by Dr Pepper Snapple Group
(NYSE: DPS) to get kids and families active nationwide. Since Let’s Play
launched in 2011, DPS has worked with nonprofit KaBOOM! to build or
improve more than 2,000 playgrounds across North America and in 2014
partnered with Good Sports to provide sports gear for deserving athletic
organizations in communities coast to coast. For more information, visit LetsPlay.com
or Facebook.com/LetsPlay.

About KaBOOM!

KaBOOM! is the national non-profit dedicated to the bold new goal of
ensuring that all children, particularly the 16 million American
children living in poverty, get the balanced and active play they need
to thrive. KaBOOM! has been a powerful champion for play since its
founding in 1996, working with partners to build, improve and open more
than 15,000 playgrounds, engage more than 1,000,000 volunteers and serve
more than 6,600,000 children. KaBOOM! creates and catalyzes great places
to play, inspires, empowers and leads play advocates, and educates and
elevates the societal conversation about the importance of play in
children’s lives. For more information, visit kaboom.org/act
or follow the conversation on why #playmatters at twitter.com/kaboom
or facebook.com/kaboom.

About Good Sports

Good Sports helps to lay the foundation for healthy, active lifestyles
by providing athletic equipment, footwear, and apparel to disadvantaged
young people nationwide. By partnering with sporting goods
manufacturers, Good Sports is able to get the necessary equipment into
the hands of the kids that need it most, giving them a chance to get in
the game. Since 2003, Good Sports has provided over $10 million worth of
equipment to over 1,500 youth programs, impacting more than 970,000
kids. For more information on how you can support Good Sports, please
visit www.goodsports.org.

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